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by lazide 1 hour ago
How do you expect your typical mobile app to work through NAT, etc. without an internet connection? For your typical ‘dumb’ home user, anyway?
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It should not. There is exactly zero reason for all this data to leave the premises.

> For your typical ‘dumb’ home user

Well, yeah. That's the problem. There is no explanation to the dumb user why this stat is only available while connected to home network.

Regardless of broadband existing or not, there was never supposed to be an abscence of dial-up.